On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:06:06PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > If this is a repeat I apologize for the noise. > > > With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new > version of DASH. > I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. > > > fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash > dpkg-divert: mismatch on package > when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash' > found `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash' > > Is this a bug or am I missing something? >
I don't know about the diversion. I use dash 0.5.5.1-3 on squeeze. free...@europa:~$ ls -al /bin/*sh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 811156 Apr 10 05:03 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84144 Sep 16 2009 /bin/dash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 23 10:28 /bin/rbash -> bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 21 04:06 /bin/sh -> dash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 23 10:28 /bin/sh.distrib -> bash On upgrade apt-lisbugs warned of bug #582952, regarding LINENO and failure of associated packages to build from source. So I aborted. But yours sounds more related to #540512 or #546428 Tyhere are a number of grave and serious bugs on the latest dash. -- Kind Regards, Freeman Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100526062422.ga27...@europa.office
